ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,419, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Endocardial left atrial appendage management" was invented by James A. Smith (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and James E. Johnson (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices for endocardial left atrial appendage management (LAAM) by inversion and excision. The methods may comprise inserting an inverter apparatus into an interior cavity of the left atrial appendage (LAA) of a subject and inverting the LAA, closing the base portion of the inverted LAA with the one or more closure devices, separating the...